TY  - BOOK
AU  - Francisco Vaz da Silva
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Archeology of Intangible Heritage
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1104579
N2  - It is remarkable how often we consider certain constructs in other peoples’ worldview to be «myths», while in our own case we regard equally arbitrary assumptions as inherent to the nature of things. As every anthropologist knows, one’s most cherished cultural assumptions tend to remain implicit; in other words, worldview is largely unconscious. This book explores the possibility of plumbing obscure aspects of one’s own culture in order to assess what some might call (regarding other cultures) the mythic underpinnings of worldview. Seven explorations in folklore and ethnography exhume a conceptual heritage that still influences perception, albeit in unconscious ways. This archeology of intangible heritage provides the sort of break in intellectual routine that allows us to look anew at familiar things.
KW  - literatur, Volksliteratur, Symbolik
LA  - English
ER  -